English-Language Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

English is the study of the English language. The goal is to improve communication skills by practicing listening, speaking, reading, writing, and understanding language rules like pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar.

• Question 2951: This question is based on the novel, The Life Changer.

  What is Salma's surname?

  Options:
  A) Mohammed
  B) Muhammed
  C) Moshood
  D) Moshud
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2952: Choose the option that best complete the gap. The laughter _____ his face for a moment. Options:
  A) Remade.
  B) Improved.
  C) Controlled.
  D) Animated.
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2953:

  The word in capital letters has the emphatic stress. Choose the option to which the given sentence relates.

  My bag is made of LEATHER?

  Options:
  A) Whose bag is made of leather?
  B) Is my bag made of polythene?
  C) Abu's bag made of leather?
  D) Is my bag made of leather?
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2954:

  Choose the option that best completes the gap(s).

  Suara needn't come with us, _____?

  Options:
  A) does she
  B) will she
  C) can she
  D) need she
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2955:

  In the question below select the option which best express the meaning of the phrase or word underlined:

  The take home pay for many workers is such that they can hardly make both ends meet

  Options:
  A) live an honest live
  B) finish their schedule of work
  C) keep two jobs at a time
  D) live within their income
  E) live on both ends
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2956:

  Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences making use of the best of the five options

  You should show some consideration _____ the feelings of others

  Options:
  A) with
  B) about
  C) by
  D) to
  E) for
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is E .
• Question 2957: Can you buy African souvenirs in any other shops? OR _____ can you buy African souvenirs? Options:
  A) What place
  B) Which place
  C) Where
  D) Where else
  E) Wherever
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2958:

  Choose the word that has the same vowel sound as the one in bracket, from questions below

  H[ei]r

  Options:
  A) Care
  B) Near
  C) mere
  D) weird
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2959:

  Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the option that most suitably fills the space;

  Last week the _____ at the theater was the longest i had ever seen

  Options:
  A) assembly
  B) congregation
  C) convention
  D) audience
  E) crowd
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2960:

  Politics in pre-colonial times did not involve the partisan type of electioneering campaign that we now have. The society was ruled by a king or an emir and his traditional chiefs or by the council of elders or clan heads. Where there existed the hierarchical system as in the Yoruba and Hausa kingdoms, succession to throne was mainly patriarchal. A recorded exception was the case of queen Amina of the Zazzau Empire who ruled in the 15th century AD.

  A host of unsung and unrecorded women regents and at the times women village rulers abound, especially the present Ondo state where some influential female chiefs and regents still exist. In Ibadan, the famous Efunsetan Aniwura held political as well as economic sway and it took a lot of drive, brain work and political engineering for the then King and his council chiefs to subdue her. The history of the various towns and villages of the period could boast of such women who were actively engaged in the running of government.

  In the Igbo society, a rise to leadership position was through demonstrated ability in fostering societal survival rather than heritage. Women’s voice in the politics of each clan is given focus either through the guild of wives, the guild of daughters, or the market women’s guild. Women, through these organs, could make their feelings known on any issue affecting their community as a whole or females in particular, Thus, unpopular edict or ‘decrees’ could be revoked or revised as a result of mounted pressure from any of these female associations. No decision was usually taken by the man without prior consultation with the leaders of the women’s groups.

  It must however be emphasized that the degree of women participation in politics was yet much limited when compared to that of men.

  Which of the following is implied in the passage? Options:
  A) Women are not politicians
  B) Women should be confined to the home
  C) Women are capable of political leadership
  D) Post-colonial politics should not involve women
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is C .